A mobile project for sterilizing stray dogs.
(An initiative of a veterinarian firm from Istanbul, taking action in Amasya on request of the Municipality).

On the picture: Their report of a campaign in the ilçe (district) of Pazar (Rize province, NE-Turkey).

Regarding Turkish stray dogs:
Large packs of stray dogs have been an endemic problem in Turkish cities for at least the last 150 years.
Each century had its own methods to deal with it.
In the second half of the 19th century, Istanbul’s stray dogs were gathered a few times and ‘exiled’ to Hayırsız Ada (= the Island without Blessings, also called ‘Sivriada’ = Sharp Island), a small and uninhabited island belonging to Adalar (the Prince Islands). It was then considered unethical to kill them. So, the dogs were left ‘in Allah’s care’ on their rocky prison; when the evening winds blew in the right direction, their howling could be heard on Istanbul’s shores at dusk.
In the 1980s the ‘solution’ was more energetic: periodically a few jobless guys would be hired to drop poisoned meat in the packs’ territory; the following day or so, the carcasses were gathered and disposed of.
The 21st century introduced a more animal friendly approach, apparently.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.